Today’s first letter is from David Challice, UKIP Head Office Manager. He alerts us gain to the possibility of a snap GE:
Sir,
There was always a Plan for Brexit, it’s just that no-one outside Downing Street ever realised what it was… even David Davis and Boris Johnson. Chequers has unveiled it in all its dirty glory. After Mrs May became PM, David Davis would be appointed Brexit Negotiator in a new “leaving the EU” department. But it would be a Potemkin Village, a sham, built of clapboard and nails, smelling of slapped-on paint, hastily erected to give an outward appearance of something it was not.
While David Davis and his assistant Steve Baker were shuttling back and forth to Brussels, the real Brexit Plan was secretly being devised by Olly Robbins, an unelected civil servant. The Real Deal was shown to (and cleared by) Angela Merkel a few days prior to Chequers. David Davis (and Steve Baker) only got to see it at Chequers, when they realised Mrs May had been stringing them along, treating them like idiots for the last two years. That’s why they resigned.
And then Boris went… probably spurred into action because Davis had beaten him off the starting-line and he felt he had to go too.
UKIP is now at 8% in the polls. May is betraying Brexit. The Tory Party is in open revolt. The Tory branches are incandescent with fury, with 66% of them rejecting Chequers. There are about 47 “letters” currently lodged with the 1922 Committee, and UKIP is preparing for a general election. In those circumstances UKIP will never support anything Theresa May ever says or does on Brexit. She has now proved her duplicity and contempt for 17.4 million Leave voters and frankly is toast. It’s just a question of when the smoke-detector gets activated.
Personally, I think the crunch will come in October, possibly November. Mrs May will try to suspend Article 50 to buy time, and the EU will try to extract more concessions. There is a dirty great snowball rolling straight at her (and the Conservative Party) and who knows the result. But we have to be ready for that increasingly likely general election.
Respectfully, David Challice, UKIP Head Office Manager
The second letter is from our contributor Roger Gough who takes a closer look at the film BBC Newsnight showed before their interview with Gerard Batten last week:
Sir,
Last week BBC TV ‘Newsnight’ ran a feature put together by one of their in-house reporters, Gabriel Gatehouse. It featured film of Gerard on the podium in Whitehall (at a Free Tommy Robinson/Free Speech demonstration attended by thousands) giving a speech in which he called out the prophet Mohammed as a paedophile. In order to show how thick (or misguided) the attendees and/or Tommy supporters were, he interviewed one white, middle-aged English woman and asked her why she was attending. She replied that she didn’t think it right that Muslim men were allowed to have sex with underage girls. He rubbished her suggestion and to prove she was wrong he revealed that he had visited many Islamic countries and as a result could categorically state that her assertion was wrong. “Who told you this?” he asked her more than once in a boorish fashion whilst attempting to publicly belittle her. It worked. She was not a woman who made notes in order to produce them to BBC reporters when asked for her source of ‘news’, she was simply acknowledging what I and millions of other people, including Gerard, believe to be a repulsive tenet of Islam. She was a concerned UK citizen who had actually got off her backside in an effort to help right what she and a majority of the electorate perceive to be a grave wrong amongst many which are being imposed on the UK citizenry. But BBC mission accomplished; she was made to look a misinformed fool and, by association, so was everyone else that attended. She probably even voted Leave! (He didn’t ask my opinion although I was available).
On 22nd July at 7am on the Radio 4 ’Sunday’ programme (religious matters), an item discussed a new weapon in the fight against the problem of underage sex by muslim men and forced marriage: teaspoons. No joke ! Currently, so severe is this problem facing society in the North of England particularly, that schools there are uniting to combat it. Girls at risk of such a fate – ie all girls of muslim families – are being given metal teaspoons to covertly carry in their underwear so that if they are going overseas ‘on holiday’, but believe that forced marriage is the ulterior motive of their trip, they will be stopped when passing through and activating anti-terror scanners at airports, taken to an interview room without the attentions of their male “minders” and their fears listened to. These facts were provided to the BBC by concerned muslim women and shows conclusively that Gatehouse (in my book anyway) was guilty of deliberately broadcasting “fake news” in his Newsnight piece in a particularly reprehensible and unprofessional way. I believe that UKIP – not least because it was an item featuring Gerard – should complain to the BBC without delay and demand a public apology be accorded the woman who Gatehouse belittled.
In March this year the BBC’s Director of News and Current Affairs, Fran Unsworth – Auntie’s public apologist for the Cliff Richard ‘search’ debacle – declared the following; “Broadcasters and the rest of the news industry have a responsibility to tackle fake news and I want the BBC’s global reach to lead the way”. To obtain such an apology I believe would play particularly well with voters at this time.
Respectfully, Roger Gough
Is our war chest being held for a GM ? That would be a selfish reason. Is it reasonable or not?…The bookies are good at guessing, Whats their view and Odds.
Mystifying was the fact that MAY trundled oop North yesterday to ‘explain’ the much maligned ‘deal’ to common-or-garden citizens. Ordinarily politicians only come face to face with voters when they want their endorsement at an upcoming election – so the die is cast. The only question remaining (ugh) is: General Election or 2nd referendum?
An emergency GE will be a 2nd Referendum. It’s been planned since the day after the LibLabCon lost the last one.
We currently have 408 constituencies voting Leave so the perfect opportunity to remove hundreds of EU parasites from the Westminster trough.
One person, one vote (except in Labour safe seats), will ensure democracy beats Goldman Sachs and the parliamentary fifth columnists.
Would we not have most impact if we targeted the Remingers like la Soubrette and Grieve my soul ?
Definitely leave eg Moggers a clear run ?
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It was a colossal mistake in the 2017 General Election to stand down candidates and tell people to vote Tory. It fed the narrative that our job was done (when can plainly see it isn’t) and led to our vote share collapsing, which the MSM used mercilessly to attack us. We also lost our major party status which allowed the broadcasters to effectively silence us on TV. So we must field as many candidates as possible in the next General Election, to ensure that all voters can have the choice to vote for us, which will increase our overall percentage… Read more »
Hi Steve. The OFCOM ‘test’ for allowing party political broadcasts is not based on the number of seats contested, but on the most recent performances at the polls combined with current opinion polling data. UKIP unfortunately will fail this test. Contrary to popular belief the broadcasters (outside the BBC )have no say in the matter. The parties also are required to fill the minimum amount of slots allocated by OFCOM. UKIP did do that in 2015 and 2017. OFCOM do not allocate the BBC PPB’s , That was done by the BBC Trust —now superceeded by the BBC Board —-(… Read more »
Why don’t we qualify? We have MEPs from the last electiral cycle…
Its not about the EU. Its based on recent GE / by election performance and polling. Lets face it, if David Kurten, parachuted into Lewisham, who gets fewer than 400 votes and loses his deposit was the benchmark, they would have to give PPBs to everyone.
But the document says EU representation is one of the factors for consideration?
There will almost certainly be an election come October / November and it will be with either Johnson or Rees-Mogg as Tory leader. UKIP needs a strategy for tackling this election and that does NOT mean 600 plus candidates. Unlike previous years and by elections UKIP should ONLY contest seats where there is a marginal majority and then ONLY if there is adequate funding , local support and of course, a decent candidate. Arithmetic means that there is little prospect of more than a couple of seats being won, HOWEVER the damage that can be done to the government by… Read more »
I for one am not convinced that the people who really control UKIP actually want UKIP to achieve anything, and hence I won’t be fooled again thank you very much. Until GB makes some changes that demonstrate to me that he has got rid of the blockers, such as announcing policies (in fact how can anyone belong to a party that does not have any official policies?) and has a functioning shadow cabinet team (we don’t have a single member at the moment according to the website) then I can only assume that the people in charge want UKIP to… Read more »
Totally agree StuartJ and great letter from David Challice. We must be prepared and have candidates in all constituencies asap.
Regarding a possible General Election, I believe also that it is only a matter of time.
This time round, I hope UKIP’s approach will be different; no more of this “back a Labour/Tory Brexiteer”.
The message should be clear and simple: this is the people versus the Establishment.
Vote for any of the Establishment (LibLabCon) parties, and nothing will change.
UKIP versus the Establishment!
I believe you comment is even more relevant Stuart having heard the news today that May isin charge of negotiations and it is her Chequeurs plan cooked up by her inside adviser Olly Robbins; now apparently out in the open and chief Negotiator “Her plan” unashamedly a betrayal of 17.4 million (plus – dont forget there must have been millions who voted remain due to the FEAR campaign of Cameron and Osborne) is a direct attack on democracy of the people who were “invited” to vote – dont forget it was the government which “offered” the referendum and was endorsed… Read more »
I can’t see a bright man like Dominic Rabb taking this insult and demotion ! He should resign as well. May left that little plan until the recess, but that will not save her.
Anyone with a hole up their a*** knows she is determined to give the country up. An election is inevitable.
Its up to us to help get her out of office.